Class:MFA Illustration 2018/Week 14
Contents
Last Week
- RAW photography workflows with Lightroom and Photoshop
- Basic photo editing and capturing accurate color for illustrators
- Basic image retouching in Lightroom and Photoshop
- Advanced masking and image selection in Photoshop
This Week
- Quick Photoshop actions demo
- Photo + illustration project review
- Introduction to vector illustration techniques
- Basic Adobe Illustrator overview
- First Adobe Illustrator assignment
Open Questions
Notes
Some vector based Illustrators
- Joshua Smith aka Hydro74
- http://hydro74.com/
- https://www.behance.net/Hydro74
- Check out timelapse stuff on Instagram here
- Jeremy Packer aka Zombie Yeti
- http://www.zombieyeti.com/
- https://www.behance.net/zombieyeti
- https://create.adobe.com/2014/12/18/zombies_yetis_pinball.html
- Orlando Arocena
- https://www.behance.net/orlandoarocena
- https://create.adobe.com/2015/11/3/the_force_is_strong_with_orlando_arocena.html
- James White aka signalnoise
- http://signalnoise.com/
- https://www.behance.net/signalnoise
- Tom Whalen
- http://www.strongstuff.net/
- https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/interview-with-tom-whalen-of-strongstuff--vector-3169
Learning Links
- Science Machine Ai Time Lapse
- Process and Global colors
Video Notes
- Quick Adobe Photoshop actions demo
- Photo + illustration project review
- Introduction to vector illustration techniques
- Basic Adobe Illustrator overview
Assignment
As you have seen in this weeks class Adobe Illustrator is quite different than Photoshop. Regardless of your preferred method of working digitally, Illustrator is a large part of an illustrator’s and designer‘s workflow.
Your assignment for next week is a short, fun (albeit frustrating) one. We are going to do one of the hardest things you could do in Adobe Illustrator – I want you to draw from real life.
For next week, find two objects and draw them with Adobe Illustrator on the desktop, in color, (WHILE you are sitting and looking at the objects, with the mouse or tablet!). I don’t want traced images or scans, I expect you to use the pencil tool, brush tool, etc...
Create two new square compositions, each featuring a different object.
- One object should be man-made (not a phone), one should be organic (not an apple). Both objects should be smaller than a breadbox
- Both drawings should be in color
- You may incorporate Adobe Draw into ONLY ONE of your drawings. Send the part of your drawing TO ILLUSTRATOR and upload Ai files.
Bring two square format color Adobe Illustrator files to class or upload it to the Google Drive folder.
I will not accept jpegs or png files this week.
